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| bio | website | nathantresch.com |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 1 month |
| seen | Feb 5 at 18:47 | |
| stats | profile views | 23 |
I’m a 39 year old autodidact, and very proud to be. I'm looking for work right now, but that's normal given my proclivity for accepting contracts. I write, I eat, and I enjoy life with all of the gusto I can. I love language and languages. I occasionally slip and use serial commas, and when I do I often leave them as a flag flying in the face of my enemy, Language Prescriptivism. I’m a native English speaker and I’ve studied both Latin and several Romance Languages that are derived from it. I’ve studied law, language, history, sociology, logic, debate, math and various sciences, because those subjects all fascinate me to no end.
Care to learn more? Visit my blog! <3
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May 3 |
asked | Creating metaphors in poetry |
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May 3 |
answered | When to start a new paragraph and when to start a new “scene” |
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May 3 |
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Title Choice: “The Girl [Without/Who Didn't Have] A Soul” deleted 1 characters in body |
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May 3 |
revised |
Title Choice: “The Girl [Without/Who Didn't Have] A Soul” added 1 characters in body |
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May 3 |
revised |
Title Choice: “The Girl [Without/Who Didn't Have] A Soul” added 1417 characters in body |
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May 3 |
answered | Title Choice: “The Girl [Without/Who Didn't Have] A Soul” |
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May 2 |
comment |
Are online critique groups a good substitute for editors? If you could manage to get those people here, that would be helpful, as we'd like this site to grow. ;) |
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May 2 |
awarded | Teacher |
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May 2 |
revised |
How should I use phrases such as “uh huh”? added 4 characters in body |
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May 2 |
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How to plan dialog and keep it on track? I think you're selling yourself short, dialogue can be both natural and good. ;) |
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May 2 |
awarded | Editor |
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May 2 |
revised |
How should I use phrases such as “uh huh”? deleted 4 characters in body |
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May 2 |
answered | How to plan dialog and keep it on track? |
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May 1 |
answered | How should I use phrases such as “uh huh”? |
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May 1 |
comment |
How should I use phrases such as “uh huh”? This is a totally appropriate question, he's asking if it's a good idea for his characters to speak like this, and if so he would like clarification as to the meanings of the words. I get the hesitation in having characters use words like this. With the understanding that he's asking about dialogue, this is definately a good question. |
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Apr 30 |
awarded | Talkative |
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Apr 30 |
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Adding related work to an academic project report I believe that he's asking the best way to segue between his words and when he's about to start talking about someone else's words that were seen in another academic paper. |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Apr 29 |
comment |
How does one break into the field of professional writing? Impressive. I thank you very, very much, from the bottom of my heart for this well written and amazingly complete answer. I started writing again because I didn't have a choice, there were words in my head that needed out, so, your first goal suggestion is definitely already a goal of mine. Your second mention of a goal, to be honest, is also a goal, and the reason for that is that I legitimately believe I have a wonderful gift and by hiding it away as I have I'm insulting whomever blessed me with it. The last two are of course real goals for me, I'm not going to lie, but, not as important. |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Scholar |
